“I've come to understand that emotions are a beautiful and very necessary part of the human experience. Tears are the liquid droplets of my soul that you get to see when I'm FEELING. Crying doesn't mean I'm weak, it means I'm strong enough to share with you my vulnerability. So if any of you out ther…”— Cassey Ho, instagram.com
“Needing all of these things doesn’t make you a whiny loser. You need a lot. I do, too. There’s no value judgment to be made about that. It’s not your fault. That’s WHO YOU ARE. You are a lot, and you need a lot. It’s time to start admitting that to yourself.”— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com
“nerve, n.: I’ve got a lot of it for feeling hurt so strongly; you’ve got a lot of it for ignoring this fact repeatedly.”— David Levithan, twitter.com
“Emotions are like vomit. You can only hold it in for so long before it all just comes out... and by that time it's pretty messy.”— Simon Sinek, twitter.com
“Sometimes we are angry, and we have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give us the right to be cruel.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“There are always emotions hidden behind 'I don't care' and pain behind 'it's okay.'”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“IT'S OKAY to be sad. IT'S OKAY to feel pain. IT'S OKAY to be vulnerable. We are made to have emotions. Don't be afraid to let it out.”— Nadine Lustre, instagram.com
“I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.”— Mary MacLane, amazon.com
“Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings that puzzles me the mo…”— Sigmund Freud, goodreads.com
“Sometimes I forget that unsaid sentences do not mean unfelt emotions.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, livebyquotes.com
“I wondered if ever my heart would beat again, / As I wandered the moonlight’s dream, past pleasure or past pain.”— Robert Penn Warren, amazon.com
“And I need to see you, but I don’t see you, and I need to hear you, but I don’t hear you, and I need to touch you, but I don’t touch you, and I need to think about you, and that is all I do.”— Charles Bukowski, thelovejournals.com
“I was glad I wasn’t in love, that I wasn’t happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“THE human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures,”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.com
“There is no perfect ending to a relationship. No magic formula. Just a silent scream as they rip your f*cking heart out.”— Michael Faudet, amazon.com
“I’m all done with hating you. It’s all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don’t hate them very long.”— Raymond Chandler, amazon.com
“I am not afraid of an argument. Get emotional. Get angry. Spit language venom. Be unrelenting and cruel with your words if you feel you have to be. Because above all else I am terrified of the silence. Of things becoming so passionless between us there is no longer anything left worth fighting for.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com